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Thanks to everyone who made it out to Maxwell’s in Hoboken last night! The room was packed, the alcohol was flowing and most importantly, the music was rockin. Special thanks to Josh Charles, Joey DeGraw, The Canon Logic and Love Goat who all put on amazing performances. I’m hoping to post a photo collage later this week from everyone who shot throughout the night so be sure to check back for that!

Another very special thank you goes out to my amazing friend and fellow blogger Monica Rozenfeld for her post about the show on her blog, The Jew Spot (check it out for photos of the night!) and videos uploaded on YouTube. You can watch Monica’s videos of Joey DeGraw and The Canon Logic below. Can’t wait for next year’s concert! Taking band suggestions now 🙂

Below is a segment of The Canon Logic’s energetic performance as well as a view of the packed room and fans dancing along throughout their set.
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You can watch Joey DeGraw performing at Maxwell’s in Hoboken last night below.

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Just wanted to remind you all about the awesome concert I’m hosting tonight at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. Please come out and say hi!

Check out the flier on the right for more info and the lineup for the night below:

Doors 8:30 p.m.
9 p.m. Josh Charles
10 p.m. Joey DeGraw
11 p.m. The Canon Logic

Should be fun! See you there.

As you can see on the sidebar on right side of the blog (and from the image above), I posted the flier for the concert next Saturday that I’m hosting. I’m really psyched to be able to get such great bands to play Maxwell’s and hope you can all come out!

Check out the MySpace for each band and the lineup for the night below:

Doors 8:30 p.m.
9 p.m. Josh Charles
10 p.m. Joey DeGraw
11 p.m. The Canon Logic

If you have any questions feel free to leave me a comment or email me.

It’s really crazy to think that exactly one year ago today I began my blog. Originally, I started You Sing, I Write as a creative outlet since my current day job didn’t (and still isn’t) writing-related. Growing up, I always knew I wanted to be a writer, just not sure what field or genre until my senior year of college. When I landed my internship at MTV News Online I knew for sure that becoming a music journalist was my career goal. Little did I know how competitive the field was and with the current job market, the outlook doesn’t look too promising. So, to keep up my writing and creativity I thought, “Why not start a music blog?” I go to tons of concerts throughout the year, might as well cover them and try to get interviews with each band.

The History:
It was the middle of October and I already was planning to see Switchfoot at Hammerstein Ballroom with a bunch of friends, so I decided to contact their management and see what I could do. Surprisingly, within 24 hours of emailing I received a response back and was able to set up an interview with the band. Lucky for me, MTV was just launching it’s own concert blog so I began covering shows and writing up my reviews for them as well as my own blog. Everything spiraled from there and soon I was doing phone interviews with bands on my lunch breaks, getting CD’s sent to me in the mail on a weekly — sometimes daily — basis and the rest, as they say, is history.

This past year alone I’ve conquered some of my life goals, strange enough as it may seem. I lived my own version of Almost Famous when I went on tour with Army of Me for a few tour dates. That experience was like no other and I was able to meet and interview not only each member of Army of Me, but another up-and-coming band, Lights Resolve as well as interview Jeph from The Used on their tour bus. Looking back, never in a million years would I have dreamed my blog would have taken off to where it is today and there is still so much I want to do with it within the next year!

Of course my goal is to eventually have a full-time writing gig somewhere in New York, or maybe California. Hey, even Nashville sounds pretty nice at this point too, who knows. But for now, I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been introduced to some amazing bands this past year and hope you all have enjoyed my interviews and reviews of each of them. While I can cross off going on tour with a band on my life “to-do” list, I hope that in the near future I can have many more amazing touring experiences and be able to vividly capture and chronicle each tale on this blog. I hope you continue to read and look forward to the new bands I feature each week. Thanks for all of your support and continuous comments throughout the past year. Keep them coming!

And, for being such loyal readers, I want to invite you all out to Maxwell’s in Hoboken on November 8th. I’m planning a concert with three amazingly talented bands that I think you should all spend some time getting to know — Josh Charles, Joey DeGraw and The Canon Logic. Check them out on MySpace and hope to see you Nov. 8th!

October is already off to a great start. Lots of exciting things happening! I’ve gotten word that I’ll be covering New York’s CMJ Music Festival the end of the month for the UWire, so once I find out where my reviews and interviews will be posted I’ll fill you in. Check out the artist line-up and let me know if you have any requests of bands to cover!

In addition, another place you can search for past MP3 interviews from You Sing, I Write is on The Hype Machine. It’s a pretty cool site that automatically updates MP3’s from my blog as well as hundreds of other blogs onto their site so members can search for the latest interviews and songs invading the Web.

I’ll also be writing for ReviewYou.com — a service that provides album reviews for musicians who typically aren’t guaranteed their reviews in music magazines or Web sites due to lack of space or other reasons. (You can check out a photo of me and a brief bio featured on the site here). I’ll probably add these reviews to my blog as well, just so you can check out some artists you might not have come across yet.

Feel free to keep e-mailing me/leaving comments about bands I should cover or review. While it sometimes takes me a while to get back to everyone, I plan to write a new blog each day and cover everything! Also, I’m trying to revamp the blog a bit. If you haven’t noticed, I added all my interviews on the sidebar of the page so you can easily click on many of the artists featured on the blog. I’m hoping to add another section that features upcoming concerts in the New York/New Jersey area I think you’d be interested in. Still working on that, but if you’re interested in a free show tomorrow night, I’ll be at the Blender Theater covering my previous “Artist of the Week,” Josh Charles. Admittance is free before 8 p.m. Check out Josh’s MySpace for more information.

I’ve covered shows at numerous venues throughout New York and New Jersey, never really in search for the perfect venue, more so in finding the perfect band — the new, next big thing. Along the way, however, there are certain locations that feel more like my home away from home and this past year it has definitely been Maxwell’s in Hoboken. I’ve witnessed so many great acts there and interviewed some amazing artists as well, including my favorite band throughout most of high school, The Ataris.

So what better way to celebrate the one-year anniversary of You Sing, I Write and tie in three birthdays — myself and two close friends — than spending a night out enjoying live music at my favorite concert venue? I’m still working out the details, but I’m hoping to set up a band line-up by Friday to book the back room of Maxwell’s so if you or a band you know is interested in a night of fun and want to play, hit me up! Feel free to leave me a comment on the blog or E-mail Me!

As you can tell, my weekly blog schedule is not going exactly according to plan this week, but next week will be more promising. I have about 10 minutes more of an interview with piano pop/rock band Strive to finish transcribing and post, but I’m putting that on hold to prepare for my interview with frontman Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind tomorrow afternoon! Feel free to email me or leave me comments on anything you might want to know!